By Abby H P Werlock
This source examines the nice American novel in all of its range. Spanning the earliest novels that imitated the literary models of britain to the emergence of types and matters that have been actually American, this reference strains the background of the unconventional within the united states. With greater than 1200 A-Z entries, this paintings might actually help readers deepen their knowing of the yankee novel and its position in literary background.
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Written during the 1790s and first decade of the 1800s, the Barbary slave narratives ostensibly deal with the enslavement of Christians by Muslims in North Africa. At the same time, these works (which include texts such as Susanna ROWSON’S 1794 opera Slaves in Algiers, or a Struggle for Freedom) provided American writers with a safer, more indirect way of critiquing the slave system at home. In volume 2 of The Algerine Captive, Tyler fuses this specific form of captivity narrative with another 18th-century literary genre—the philosophical novel—adding yet another layer of critical distance.
Boston: Loring, 1879. Republished as The Young Adventurer or Tom Nelson in California. London: Aldine, 1887. SOURCES Bennett, B. : A Comprehensive Bibliography. Mt. : Flying Eagle Publishing, 1980. Nackenoff, C. The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Scharnhorst, Gary. Horatio Alger, Jr. Boston: Twayne, 1980. Scharnhorst, Gary, and Jack Bales. : An Annotated Bibliography of Comment and Criticism. : Scarecrow Press, 1981. ———.
The opening chapter focuses on the story of Kiyo’s friendship with an older boy, Makot. The Oyamas try to dissuade Kiyo from pursuing this friendship. Makot’s family is the only Japanese household in the Filipino section of the local sugar plantation, and he is deemed undesirable by the elder Oyamas, a mystery that is explained when Kiyo learns that his friend’s mother works as a prostitute. The parents’ insistence on Kiyo’s dissolution of his friendship with Makot demonstrates both the distinctions of status that they adhere to and introduces the theme of filial piety into the novel.
